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2/2/2016
#18
CORNELL/GUIDED NOTES
* A COMMON CHARACTERISTIC
AMONG STUDENTS WITH
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND
AUTISM IS DELAYS IN AUDITORY
PROCESSING, MAKING RELIANCE ON
SPEECH AS THE ONLY MODALITY OF
INSTRUCTION DIFFICULT FOR THIS
STUDENT POPULATION (*).
Research has shown that Cornell and other guided notes have a significant impact on all students in a
classroom. Students with a learning disability (moderate to severe) and those with autism who used guided
notes had nearly equivalent scores to their nondisabled classmates. These styles of note taking improve the
performance of isolated student with disabilities, immersion groups, and classrooms consisting of average
intelligence entirely.
With Cornell notes, the teacher provides the class with the Cornell worksheet exampled below.
Students will write key facts such as; definitions, important dates and people, formulas, etc. in the right hand
column (which is the largest space). As the lecture takes place, the teacher will point out a particular sentence
or a critical fact that the students should write in the prepared space. (***) In the left hand column students
will create questions they think the information in the right column answers as well as, define the main idea
of the lecture. The bottom section is where the student will write a summery, in their own words, of what the
lecture was about. Teachers should review notes to make sure students are recording information accurately
at the end of class.
With the other guided notes, teachers simple type up the lecture in an easy to read and age appropriate
format with key words replaced by a blank space. Students are required to listen to the teacher and write the
correct word in the blank space. The teacher should provide adequate cues as to what is supposed to go in
those spaces during lecture. The teacher should then indicate to the entire class what the correct word is that
belongs in that blank space. The students will then check that what they wrote is correct, and change it if it is
not.